A Lesson Against Gossip

International Tract and Missionary Society · Oakland, California · Mar 12, 1885

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 11, No. 11.

A Lesson Against Gossip

An old saint, Dorotheus by name, is said to have taught his disciples thus: "If, on entering the private room of your brother, where he performs his devotions, you find everything in disorder, conclude that he is so absorbed in God that he takes no thought about things external; if, on the contrary, you find everything in admirable order, be convinced that his interior life is as well conducted as his external habitation." Much small gossip can be stopped thus.